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Wear OS apps may now be installed via Android smartphones through the Google Play Store's latest update. The new function comes as the next generation smartwatch operating system, which the search engine giant and Samsung team up with, is slated to debut.
It is worthy to note that Google and the South Korean tech giant collaborated to merge both Wear OS and Tizen.
As per PocketNow, the smartwatches that will debut the WatchOS 3.0, including the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic and the Galaxy Watch 4, are nearing their launch. As such, Google is already prepping the existing features of its platform even before it actually releases the next-gen OS.
Wear OS Apps on Android Smartphones
One of the latest changes that Google initiated includes the ability to have your Wear OS apps installed even at the comfort of your smartphone.
To be precise, the Google Play Store update will make the smartwatch software available on the app marketplace, installing the app remotely from a smartphone.
The update also introduces a dedicated search filter, which will be handy for specifically downloading Wear OS apps. The option narrows down into two categories, namely the "Watch" or "Watch Faces."
How to Install Wear OS Apps on Android Smartphones
Google claimed that the latest update helps users install Wear OS apps on their smartphones, saying that it "simplifies the experience of navigating the small surface area of a watch face."
Without any further ado, here's how to do it.
- Open Google Play Store on an Android smartphone.
- Add "Watch" or "Watch Faces" keywords on your search.
- Search for the app you are looking for.
- Click Install on your smartphone to remotely download the app to your smartwatch.
Wear OS Google Play Redesign
Aside from the new installation feature, XDA-Developers further reported that the Google Play on Wear OS is now adopting the Material You interface, the design language of the search engine giant for Android and other platforms under it.
Google noted that the new design better suits the quaint circular display of the smart wearables.
Wear OS Play Store In-App Purchase
According The Verge, the Google Play Store update also made a new feature for users purchasing services and products via their smartwatch.
That said, the app marketplace on smart wearables will now have an option to open the purchase page of the app on your Android smartphone. Plus, there will also be an option to copy the URL of the web browser and access it on another device.
These two choices will both enable the user to complete their payment.
Elsewhere, the upcoming Wear OS 3.0 is reportedly supported by all Snapdragon wear platforms.
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How today’s farmer CEOs shape modern agriculture with business minded management.
"There’s nothing on my farm I don’t know how to do or couldn’t do," says Jeremy Jack, a Mississippi farmer and partner in Silent Shade Planting Company. "I’m also the CEO of the operation."
Today’s farm owners and operators have to think like CEOs to stay competitive, but they can’t be afraid to do the work of any of their employees, says Jack, who spoke on a panel today at the Bayer CropScience Ag Issues Forum in San Antonio ahead of Commodity Classic.
"I’m the general, but I’m also a soldier on the farm," Jack says.
Bruce Frasier, owner of Dixondale Farms in Clarrisa, Texas, says today's farmers have to think like a CEO and not be afraid to change the business if it’s not working. On his onion farm, for example, Frasier recently moved toward more mail-order business for his onion transplants instead of most of the sales going to other farmers. Today, 25% of his sales go to farmers, 25% go to garden centers, 25% go to mail-order and 25% go to big box stores. In mail-order segment, Dixondale ships 200,000 onion transplants a year. The change has generated five times the amount of sales the farm used to make.
"We have had to change based on survival," Frasier says. "We took a bigger area of marketing so we can do more of the retail. We are price givers. We want to get more. The demand was there, but the distribution center was breaking down. In 1990 fuel prices went up. We used to send a truckload into town; now they want a half-load truck and an inventory. So we segmented the company into the four areas to spread the risk."
For Illinois farmer Chad Leman, co-owner of Leman Farms Inc., labor is the biggest challenge as a farm CEO. Leman Farms grows corn and soybeans and markets 60,000 pigs a year.
"Where am I going to find people who are willing to come into a livestock business and work with animals all day?,’ Leman asks. "Most young people today are at least four generations from being on the farm."
Leman is also concerned about succession. He believes farm business today is more mental than physical. "I am looking at margins 12 months out. We are price takers, it is a mental game. Am I willing to lock in a double instead of a home run? Being able to lock in positions and hold those margins takes a lot of time in the office," Leman says. He has four daughters and firmly believes that any one of them could come back and run the farm business. It’s no longer a male-versus-female profession, he says.
For Frasier, who has 200 employees who are mostly seasonal labor, immigration reform will be key to the future of his business and finding employees. "We have been aggressive and we pay well. The way I market my onions now, I’m able to make more profit, we can pay better by the piece break," Frasier says.
Still, as a CEO in agriculture, Jack says one of the most rewarding aspects is being able to institute a change in the production process that makes a difference in the outcome of product. Technology has been a huge benefit on Jack’s farm, which is 95% irrigated.
"The most challenging thing is the black swan events that might be around the corner and the environmental regulations coming on us," Jack says.
"It is exciting that we are running a million businesses, and if we want to change direction, we can," adds Leman. "As CEO of my farm, I don’t have to run any changes or ideas through a board. But therein also lies the challenge. At the end of the day, the success of the farm is up to me."

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The Texas Department of Transportation has dismantled a portion of its toll tag website after a blogger noticed that it was leaving users' credit card information exposed.
Last week, blogger David Longnecker of Dripping Springs wrote a post highlighting a flaw in the TxTag.org website that could allow someone to view a toll tag user’s credit card information in a page’s html code.
“This flaw exposes personal information for the…1.2 million drivers with active TxTags, including names, full mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers with expiration date,” Longnecker wrote.
Within days, Longnecker noticed that TxDOT had shut down the “Update” page of the “Autopay” section of the site, which was where the personal data was exposed. Visitors to TxTag.org are currently blocked from making any updates to the autopay feature on their account.
“TxDOT is aware of the blog post and the described vulnerability,” TxDOT spokesman Bob Kaufman said Tuesday. “There were no breaches of security on the TxTag site and no customer information was accessed.”
Kaufman said the agency disabled the page and is “working on enhancements.” Users who try to access that page are encouraged to make a one-time payment instead.
“We regret any customer inconvenience as we work to further enhance the security features of our site,” Kaufman added.


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Firefall beta live stream coming Saturday, January 28th
A few weeks ago, Red 5 Studios CEO Mark Kern promised fans that they would live stream one of their beta tests for Firefall, an upcoming MMO and first-person shooter, if they reached the top 5 in the IGN Voodoo top anticipated games survey. Well, thanks to the fans, they achieved that goal.
Staying true to his word, Red 5 has announced the date for the beta live stream. This Saturday, technical designer Xenogenic and community manager Phobos will be live streaming the beta on Twitch.tv, showing off the latest Firefall build and answering viewer questions.
The live stream begins Saturday, January 28 at 11am Pacific Time. It will be show on the Red 5 Studios Twitch.tv account, found here.
This does not mean the NDA for Firefall will be lifted, however. As community manager FadedPez confirmed, this is strictly a beta live stream and the NDA will still be in full effect.
Aside from a few trailers and news posts, fans haven't been able to see much of Firefall. They had an impressive showing at PAX, but with Mark Kern announcing they would be pulling out of E3 2012, this may be one of the few chances fans will get to see what Firefall is all about.


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The government thus opted for the stricter of the two originally mulled solutions, and it brought forward the date of implementation.
The original action plan involved implementation on 1 January and a choice between real-time certification via internet link to the Tax Administration (FURS) or saving of data on special memory sticks.
Under the current plan, every receipt will have a unique ID assigned by the FURS as a means of preventing tax evasion.
The plan is the latest instalment in the increasingly strict supervision of cash-based businesses such as bars, hairdressers and the trades.
A system of virtual certified registers, a much simpler software solution that merely prevents the deletion of receipts, has been in place since mid-2013.
The government hopes to collect an additional EUR 50-100m in VAT, an assessment based on the EUR 100m increase in tax receipts following the introduction of virtual cash registers.
While big businesses have been supportive of the government efforts to crack down on tax evasion, representatives of small businesses raised concern about the cost.
The government says the proposed solution is cheap, as it does not require special software or hardware, only internet access, which the vast majority of businesses already have.
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At the same time as Audi has revealed a new global environmental efficiency program, its Australian subsidiary has confirmed the petrol-electric hybrid version of the popular Q5 mid-size SUV is off the local agenda.
That’s despite Audi Australia managing director Uwe Hagen late last year declaring his determination to sell the ambitious luxury brand’s first mass market hybrid here.
However, the Q5 hybrid has fallen victim to a wonky right-hand drive business case that did not add up. The decision was confirmed to Drive by Audi Australia product planning boss John Roberts on the sidelines of a media function in Germany last week to launch Audi’s new balanced mobility program.
“The Q5 [hybrid] is a car we have wanted and a car we will continue to push for, but at the moment it’s not for right-hand drive,” Roberts said.
However, he was also able to confirm hybrid versions of the luxury mid-size A6 and large A8 sedans should be coming to Australia, although neither would arrive until 2013 at the earliest.
Orthodox diesel and petrol versions of the new A6 go on-sale in Australia in August, while the latest A8 went on-sale in 2010.
The right-hand drive issue is not so complex for these cars because they are front- rather than all-wheel drive and have been engineered more recently than the Q5.
Roberts estimated the A6 and A8 would attract only about 10-15 per cent of each model’s total sales in Australia and would be sold at a price premium. They would form obvious competition for Lexus, which owns the luxury-hybrid segment.
The A6, A8 and Q5 all share the same petrol-electric powertrain fundamentals, combining a 2.0-litre turbocharged direct injection four-cylinder petrol engine with an electric motor powered by a 1.3kWh lithium-ion battery pack.
In the A6 that results in a combined power output of 188kW, a 0-100km/h acceleration rate of 7.3 seconds and a fuel economy average of 4.9L/100km.
Audi Australia’s long-term strategy for alternative energy vehicles was due to become somewhat clearer at a conference this week in Germany, Roberts said.
“I am here to see for Australia what Audi AG will provide and what will fit into the market in terms of hybrid and electric for the future, he explained. “We are looking out long term until 2020.”
Audi’s first electric vehicle, the E-tron super coupe, will go on sale late in 2012 in Europe but is not slated for Australia. Our first E-tron could be the A3 plug-in due to appear in 2014.


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Monaco’s Scorpio Bulkers has entered into an agreement to sell the 2015-built ultramax bulker SBI Orion for around $16.1 million.
Delivery is scheduled for the first quarter of 2021, and the sale price is in line with the VesselsValue market valuation of $15.97m. The identity of the buyer was not revealed.
Yesterday, Scorpio sold 2016-built ultramax SBI Tethys for around $18.25m.
Since announcing plans to move into the offshore wind sector in August, Scorpio has sold 22 bulkers and is down to a fleet of just 27 owned vessels.
The company plans to sell its entire dry bulk fleet.
Scorpio boss Emanuele Lauro told Maritime CEO in an interview recently that the decision to pivot was taken as dry bulk was a sector it could not dominate, unlike wind installation or the product tanker sector where it has led consolidation in recent years.


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US department store JC Penney saw its losses narrow at the end of the trading day following a report that it is postponing liquidation sales and planned closing date for 138 stores.
JC Penney’s shares were moving upwards on Thursday after CNBC reported the plan. Before the report, its shares were down 3.6 per cent before closing the gap to trade just 1.83 per cent off of their closing price on Wednesday. In after-hours trading, they tacked on an additional 0.5 per cent.
JC Penney had announced in February its plans to shutter between 130-140 stores in the coming months, among other cost-cutting measures. A JC Penney spokeswoman told CNBC that, after the closures were announced, traffic and sales picked up at those stores, leading it to push back its liquidation sale start date from April 17 to May 22, and delay its closure date by about six weeks until July 31.
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Iran has suspended 20-percent uranium enrichment in order to have Western-imposed sanctions lifted, a parliament member told Al Arabiya on Saturday. Earlier, Foreign Policy and National Security Commission of Parliament Mohammad Hossein Asfari told ISNA news agency that Tehran’s move was a “good will” gesture, hoping that Western countries will lift their sanctions on Tehran.
U.S. and EU measures slashed Iran’s crude oil exports, hitting its hard currency earnings and contributing to a plunge in the rial’s value. The International Energy Agency estimated its crude exports at 860,000 bpd in September, down from 2.2 million bpd at the end of 2011.
Iran’s currency has recently plunged in what some U.S. officials described as the “most punishing sanctions” ever amassed by the global community seeking to halt Tehran’s suspect nuclear program. The rial has lost more than 80 percent of its value compared with the end of last year, when it was worth 13,000 to the dollar.
Last week, Iran banned the export of around 50 basic goods as the country takes steps to preserve supplies of essential items in the face of tightening Western sanctions. Iranian traders will no longer be able to export goods including wheat, flour, sugar, and red meat, as well as aluminum and steel ingots, according to a letter from Deputy Industry Minister Seyyed Javad Taghavi published in Iranian media on Tuesday. The letter also said a further list of banned goods would be announced later.


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BlackBerry has reached a settlement with Typo Innovations, which made an accessory keyboard for iPhones that the handset maker said infringed its patents.
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Gone are the days of skydivers landing on the tops of buildings wearing Google Glass, or new Chromebooks, tablets and smartwatches. This year, the focus of much of Google's big I/O conference was to propel the Android operating system into new areas others have pioneered, like peer-to-peer payments and smart home appliances.
Once again, Google I/O was held at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco, May 28 and 29. As Google's annual confab for third-party developers, engineers from across the world attended the show to hear about Google's latest products and services. This year, Google revealed, among other services, Android Pay, a new way to purchase items in brick-and-mortar stores using Android smartphones; a developer preview of "M," the next version of the Android operating system; Brillo, a new OS based on Android to control devices in the home and let them talk to each other; and a new photo sharing app called Google Photos.
Wander around the halls of Google's I/O conference and eventually you'll bump into a large table covered with a blue cloth. But being I/O, this is no ordinary cloth. It's a smart fabric developed by Google's advanced technology group that could one day control your smartphone or the lights in your home.
Google will let users access more key functions of its Maps service, including search and navigation, without an Internet connection this year.
Google has developed a camera system capable of capturing immersive video for virtual reality, expanding the company's efforts in this hot new field, and it's partnering with GoPro to commercialize it.
Google has made a big play for the Internet of Things, announcing a new OS on Thursday that will connect appliances around the home and allow them to be controlled from an Android smartphone or tablet.
Google is overhauling its approach to mobile payments with Android Pay, which will let people use their smartphone to make payments in brick and mortar stores as well as in apps like Lyft and GrubHub.
Earlier this month, Sidecar expanded its mobile ride hailing service to deliver medical marijuana in San Francisco. It's not the only substance the startup wants to bring to your door.
A lawsuit that alleges Yahoo's email scanning practices are illegal can proceed as a class action complaint, a development that will shine the spotlight on the Yahoo Mail use of messages' content for advertising purposes.
Android, already the most widely used operating system in smartphones, could soon find its way into refrigerators, door locks and all manner of other "smart" appliances around the home.
Virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR has acquired Surreal Vision, a company developing image recognition technology that can recreate scenes from real life inside simulated 3D environments.
Google said Thursday it would make changes to its Maps search system after racist search terms brought up the White House among their top results.
As PayPal prepares for its upcoming IPO as an independent eBay spinoff, it wants to make at least one thing clear: It's got mobile covered.
Google Maps lists the White House among top search results for certain queries containing racist terms against African-Americans.


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Walmart has recalled 2.2 million electric heaters after they received 21 reports of fires or burns.
The heaters involved in the recall included certain Flow Pro, Airtech and Aloha Breeze & Comfort Essentials Heaters models and were sold at Walmart stores between December 2001 and October 2009.
The heaters may malfunction resulting in overheating, smoking, burning, melting and fire.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled heaters and return the product to any Walmart store for a refund.
For additional information, contact Wal-Mart toll-free at (800) 925-6278 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. CT Monday through Friday.


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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is all set to launch the Lite version of its premium Mi Mix 3 flagship today. The company hasn't specifically mentioned the name of the device but the tech enthusiasts believe that it is going to be a cheaper or 'Lite' version of Xiaomi's Mi Mix 3. Lite version is usually the toned down version and comes with the budget specifications.
Xiaomi's Mi Mix 3 Lite is expected to come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 System on Chip (SoC) together with 4GB / 6GB RAM options and will take on Lenovo's Z Pro, a slider phone.
Xiaomi made the announcement of the new device via its official Weibo account and posted a picture stating that it will be coming out with the 'Youth' centric Smartphone.
This will be a second youth centric Smartphone after the Company launched Mi 8 Youth Edition. It was based on Xiaomi's Mi8 flagship. The Mix 3 Lite version is expected to have a 24-megapixel front-facing camera and a dual camera with 12-megapixel primary sensor and a 5-megapixel secondary sensor.
Earlier, Xiaomi had launched Mi 8 in the European market. The phone came packed with the 6.21 inch Super AMOLED notched display with over 83 per cent screen to body ratio. The touchscreen display had a resolution of 1080 x 2248 pixels. The phone internals had a super-powerful Snapdragon 845 based on 10 nanometer chipset with 6 GB or 8 GB RAM options. In comparison the Mi Mix 3 was launched last month in October. It had 6.39-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 2340 pixels. Mi Mix 3's Octa core processor comes with only a 6 GB RAM option at the moment. As far as the cameras are concerned, the Mi Mix 3 has a 12-megapixel (f/1.8, 1.4-micron) primary shooter and a 12-megapixel (f/2.4, 1-micron) secondary camera on the rear. On the front, it has a 24-megapixel (1.8-micron) primary camera and a 2-megapixel secondary camera.
The Xiaomi hasn't yet declared the India price or its availability yet but experts believe that the phone will be priced between Rs. 17,000- Rs. 20,000.
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Oct 09, 2017 · Dr. Stephanie McGrath, who specializes in neurology, is leading a Colorado State University study on the efficacy of cannabidiol (CBD) for the treatment of epilepsy and osteoarthritis in dogs.
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H&R Block Inc. isn’t the only one ramping up its presence through a deal with Walmart stores — so is competitor Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc.
Jackson Hewitt (Pink Sheets: JHTXQ) announced Wednesday that it signed an agreement to offer tax-preparation services at about 2,800 U.S. Walmart locations during the upcoming tax season. During the past tax season, the Parsippany, N.J., company served 2,000 Walmart locations.
“We are coming off of our best year ever in our Walmart operations and look forward to building on our Walmart success in the 2012 tax season by delivering outstanding tax-preparation service and convenience to clients and Walmart associates in Walmart U.S. store locations nationwide,” Jackson Hewitt CEO Phillip Sanford said in a release.
Overall, Jackson Hewitt will have about 6,500 locations nationwide for the upcoming tax season. It’s the second-largest U.S. tax preparer, behind Kansas City-based H&R Block (NYSE: HRB).
H&R Block announced in October that it would offer tax preparation services at 300 Walmart locations nationwide, including three in the Kansas City area.
Overall, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has 3,822 U.S. Walmart stores. That means Jackson Hewitt will be represented in 73.3 percent of Walmart’s locations and H&R Block in 7.9 percent.
H&R Block’s overall network includes 11,000 U.S. offices.


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- A prototype of Maserati’s new crossover, the Grecale, has been photographed outside the Maserati plant in Modena.
- The Grecale is smaller than the Levante.
- Prototype testing is underway and the crossover goes on sale “before the end” of the year, the company said.
A prototype of Maserati’s new crossover, the Grecale, has been photographed outside the Maserati plant in Modena. Employees were the ones who actually photographed the crossover, and the company thought what the heck, let’s release the pics for public consumption.
Grecale prototype testing is happening right now, including on road, off road, and on the track. The Grecale is positioned below the Levante, aimed primarily the Porsche Macan and Mercedes-Benz GLC. It’s possible the Grecale uses some Alfa Romeo Stelvio parts, since both are being built at the Cassino plant.
The Grecale is part of the brand’s electrification strategy, announced more than a year ago, calling for hybrid and electric models to join the range. The Ghibli sedan kicks off the electrification strategy, and is on sale now, just not here. We do expect the Grecale hybrid to be sold in the US.
Maserati is calling the battery-electric versions of its cars Folgore, meaning lightning in Italian. Details of the battery-electric Folgore version of the Grecale aren’t out quite yet, but we expect Maserati to use a version of the twin-turbo 3.0-liter Nettuno V6 as the starting point. The Grecale might get a Trofeo version as well, with a 3.8-liter V8 underhood.
Next year we expect to see the redesigned Levante.
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Organic company to open own space in New Windsor
Grower expects to employ 115
NEW WINDSOR — A fledgling organic grower and fish farm is leaving the business incubator where it got its start and moving out on its own.
Continental Organics plans to break ground next month on renovations to a building on Mount Airy Road in New Windsor, where it will grow tomatoes, cucumbers, Swiss chard and specialty greens. It will also farm tilapia and sell organic fertilizer. The company is also leasing an adjacent farm.
For company co-founder Michael Finnegan, the endeavor is both a personal ideal and a sound business investment.
"I've been eating organic for about 11 years now. I believe that organic food is an important alternative to make available to people, including my family, but it's also the future of food production," he said.
"The organic market has been growing at double-digit rates for over 20 years now and shows no sign of slowing up."
The company should be ready to begin growing sometime in the fourth quarter, when the building is complete.
The business will create 15 to 17 jobs to start with, and Finnegan anticipates employing about 115 people when all five phases are complete, a process that will take four to five years. When built out, the facility will include about 630,000 square feet of greenhouses and about 85,000 square feet of fish houses.
Sales of organic food and beverages in the U.S. grew from $1 billion in 1990 to $24.8 billion in 2009, according to the Organic Trade Association.
For the past year, Continental Organics has been operating out of the offices of the Orange County Business Accelerator, an arm of the Orange County Industrial Development Agency charged with fostering start-up businesses.
Since Continental Organics was the Accelerator's first client, its flying the nest is especially gratifying, said Michael J. DiTullo, managing director of the Accelerator.
"We're very pleased," he said. "They were our first client, our first offspring if you will, and the fact that it's agricultural, it's organic, we're just very pleased about it."


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Sagoon, a social e-commerce start-up company founded by Nepalis living in the United States, has issued a second mini IPO to raise investment from around the world.
Sagoon has more than 5.6 million users from all over the world. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US stock market regulator, had earlier given permission to Sagoon for issuing shares.
In the second phase, Sagoon will sell 300,000 shares of ‘C’ category ordinary shares to the public at the rate of $30 per share. The general public around the world will be able to buy at least 30 lots of shares (nine hundred dollars) of Sagun. The company has issued shares for a limited time so that the first applicant can buy them.
Sagoon First Mini IPO in 2017
Sagoon launched its first ‘Rage A Plus’ mini IPO in 2017 at $23 per share. At the time, more than 4,000 investors from around the world had invested $4.6 million in Sagun’s shares.
After raising investment in the first phase, Sagoon has made great strides. It has unveiled a web application for Sagoon Lite on mobile’s Android platform, Apple’s iOS platform and social smart cards and web browsers on Android.
The ‘Rage A Plus’ mini IPO issue has provided a golden opportunity for the public to acquire ownership by investing in shares in a start-up company. Sagoon has partnered with Fund America and Prime Trust to facilitate and regulate the investment process in the US stock market.
Sagoon will accept investments from public and institutional investors in the current public offering. This time the issue will be open only for a limited time. The company will use the money raised from the public investment to increase the user base, expand the platform and add new apps, features and features of Sagoon.
Sagoon, incorporated in the United States, India, and Nepal is a social commerce platform, focused on gifts and coupons for socializing.
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When investing, good things come to those who are patient. Over the past four decades, the benchmark S&P 500 has navigated its way through Black Monday in 1987, the dot-com bubble, the Great Recession, and more recently the coronavirus crash. Despite these drawn out and in some cases abrupt swoons, the average annual total return of the S&P 500, including dividends paid, is 11% over four decades.
However, this long-term buy-and-hold thesis has been put to the test in recent years by the rise of cryptocurrencies. In particular, there’s an immense amount of buzz surrounding meme-based digital currency Dogecoin (CRYPTO:DOGE), which has risen by more than 100,000% since December 2013.
The Dogecoin hype train is going to derail
The so-called “people’s currency” is lauded for its nominally low price point of $0.32 per token, as well as the perception that current investors are getting in near the ground floor, well before broad-based adoption. Enthusiasts also point to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s unwavering support of Dogecoin as a positive. While these catalysts might sound great on paper, they’re often lacking in a big way if you dig below the surface-scratching social media hype.
For example, coin price isn’t everything. Dogecoin might sound nominally inexpensive at $0.32, but it overlooks that practically 130 billion tokens are outstanding. This circulating supply is growing by approximately 5.2 billion tokens each year. This constant mining-based inflation modestly dilutes existing Dogecoin holders.
A much bigger issue can be seen on the utility front. Enthusiasts would like to believe they’re getting in on the ground floor, but only an estimated 1,400 businesses are accepting Dogecoin worldwide, according to online business director Cryptwerk. Worse yet, it’s taken eight years simply to reach a meager 1,400 businesses.
Dogecoin’s blockchain isn’t particularly efficient, either. While it does boast lower transaction fees than the Big Two of crypto (Bitcoin and Ethereum), there are a number of other crypto competitors that offer considerably lower transaction fees. Dogecoin also takes around 20 minutes to validate and settle transactions, which is longer than other popular cryptos.
It could also be argued that Elon Musk is more of a liability than a positive catalyst. Musk’s about-face on Bitcoin should serve as a warning for Dogecoin enthusiasts. The simple fact that a meme tweeted out by Musk can move Dogecoin by 30% or more is a pretty clear indication that hype, not tangible catalysts, are driving this bus.
The thing about hype train is that is always eventually derails.
Dump Dogecoin for these moneymaking stocks
Instead of putting your money to work in a highly speculative digital currency with virtually no real-world catalysts, my suggestion would be to buy stocks that offer tangible long-term growth potential. The following trio of top-notch stocks could all make you a boatload of money.
Just as you shouldn’t let Dogecoin’s nominally low token price fool you into thinking it’s in any way cheap, you shouldn’t allow robotic-assisted surgical system developer Intuitive Surgical‘s (NASDAQ:ISRG) $864 share price convince you that it’s pricey. Over time, Intuitive Surgical has all the tools (literally and metaphorically speaking) to make its shareholders rich.
Intuitive Surgical has been manufacturing and selling its da Vinci surgical system to hospitals and surgical centers for two decades. These systems allow for more precise incisions, compared to laparoscopic surgery, which can in turn lead to shorter hospital stays and fewer complications. Since 2000, more than 6,100 da Vinci systems have been installed worldwide, which is far more than any of its competitors on a combined basis. This suggests Intuitive Surgical’s market share dominance in robotic-assisted surgery is likely insurmountable.
What’s more, Intuitive Surgical’s operating model is built in such a way that operating margins improve over time, which should lead to earnings growth outpacing sales growth throughout this decade. In its early years, selling its pricey da Vinci system made up the bulk of its revenue. But given that these systems are intricate and complex, the margins associated with selling these systems wasn’t great. Nowadays, the bulk of the company’s revenue comes from selling instruments and accessories with each procedure, as well as from servicing its da Vinci systems. These are considerably higher-margin operating segments. As the base of installed da Vinci surgical systems grows, the percentage of revenue derived from these higher-margin channels increases, too.
There’s also plenty of opportunity for the company to expand its surgical focus. Da Vinci is a mainstay in urology and gynecology procedures, but can still gain abundant share in thoracic, colorectal, and general soft tissue procedures.
For all of these reasons, it’s a company that can maintain a double-digit growth rate for a long time to come.
Another growth stock that can make patient investors a boatload of money is cloud-based ad technology company PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM).
People are consuming content from connected TV (CTV), over-the-top (OTT) media (i.e., media services offered via internet), and mobile in greater amounts. PubMatic aims to help publishers via real-time programmatic advertising transactions. Its cloud-based infrastructure can cover multiple ad platforms and devices, and it’s exceptionally transparent from a price perspective. In other words, it’s helping advertisers put their money to work in the most efficient way(s) possible.
During the first quarter, the company processed 18.5 trillion impressions (that was up 106% from the prior-year period), with a net dollar-based retention rate of 130%. In English, this means existing publishers spent 30% more in Q1 2021 than they did in the prior-year quarter (Q1 2020). While adding new publishers is helpful and essential, the bulk of future cash flow growth is going to come from existing clients spending more.
Just as impressive, mobile and omnichannel video (OTT/CTV) sales jumped 83% from the prior-year period and accounted for 63% of sales. Revenue growth was so robust in these segments that the company upped its full-year sales forecast range by $15 million on the low and high end to $195 million to $200 million.
PubMatic finds itself at the center of the fastest-growing trends within the advertising space. This should give it a good chance to make its shareholders a boatload of money.
A third top-notch stock that can run circles around Dogecoin and make investors filthy rich is Singapore-based Sea Limited (NYSE:SE). That’s because Sea has a trio of rapidly growing operating segments.
For the time being, the company’s gaming division is generating all of its positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Sea ended March with almost 649 million quarterly active users (QAU). But the far more impressive figure is that close to 80 million of these gamers were paying customers. Most gaming companies see a low single-digit percentage of gamers pay to play. In Sea’s case, 12.3% of its QAUs are paying, up from 8.9% in the first quarter of 2020.
Looking further out, the company’s e-commerce platform, Shopee, is far more exciting. Shopee has been an increasingly popular shopping destination for folks in Southeastern Asia and Brazil. By targeting regions with a burgeoning middle class, Sea has seen orders surge. In the March-ended quarter, gross orders were up 153% to 1.1 billion, with gross merchandise value effectively doubling to $12.6 billion. Shopee could help Sea double its revenue every two years throughout the decade.
Lastly, Sea’s nascent digital financial services segment is making waves. Total mobile wallet payments topped $3.4 billion in the first quarter, with the company counting over 26 million paying users. Since some of the regions Sea is targeting are underbanked, digital wallets could provide a financial services workaround for consumers.
Suffice it to say, it offers a far more compelling long-term outlook than Dogecoin.
This article represents the opinion of the writer, who may disagree with the “official” recommendation position of a Motley Fool premium advisory service. We’re motley! Questioning an investing thesis — even one of our own — helps us all think critically about investing and make decisions that help us become smarter, happier, and richer.


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A new study has shown that almost half of Brits (42%) have vowed to shop at small or independent businesses this Christmas – this is more compared to previous years and a promising sign of customers knowing the value of shopping locally.
From the study results, the main factor in the motivation to shop more locally is purely an effort to support independent businesses, also to save money and to get better quality goods and services. You can read more results from the study here by Nucleus Commercial Finance.
This comes as organisations representing small businesses are urging shoppers to buy from local businesses if they want to guarantee getting Christmas gifts on time. The advice comes in the midst of postal strikes by Royal Mail this winter which have led to a backlog of parcels and letters – potentially not arriving in time for Christmas. On top of this are also train strikes which is making shoppers focus more on the shops closest to them.
Our friends at the Booksellers Association mentioned that the uncertainty around parcel delivery dates was likely to push people into shops to get their Christmas gifts.
“This could have the positive consequence of creating more traffic on High Streets and more footfall for bricks-and-mortar retailers,” said Meryl Halls, managing director of the group.
“If the silver lining from the very challenging situation around Royal Mail strikes does help produce busy local High Streets this Christmas, many bookshops will be pleased to welcome the increased traffic.”
You can read more about this story on the BBC.
We always say it’s best to buy closer to home – it’s better in terms of service, the local economy and also the environment. So why not do your last minute Christmas shopping on your local high street.
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In what may be a sign of Microsoft's original content development ambitions, Xbox Entertainment studios has hired former WB Network CEO Jordan Levin.
Microsoft will end its MSNTV service Sept. 30, the company said in a FAQ posted to the MSN TV website.
This week, while the broadcast networks' prime time schedules are winding down for summer, Netflix will add a new season of "Arrested Development" to its library. And with the franchise's built-in fan base, the new season is about the closest thing to a sure bet currently found in original online video production.
Microsoft continued its push for a larger role in living room entertainment with its new game console and entertainment center, Xbox One. The company described the device as a single device for providing all entertainment and communications bound for the living room TV set, from online video to games and traditional TV.
Although Verizon Communications offers up to 75 live streaming channels to customers using FiOS TV and LG Electronics Internet-connected devices, it stops far short of that number when it comes to viewers using a Microsoft Xbox 360 or a Samsung Smart TV, according to a Multichannel News report.
Multiple sources confirmed to The Verge last week that Microsoft is building a less expensive alternative to its Xbox console: an Xbox set-top box.
Microsoft has made a move to make online video--and particularly its own exclusive online video--a major piece of its Xbox gaming platform. Until now, Microsoft has depended on cutting deals with outsiders to get video content to run on the gaming platform. That should change now that the software giant has hired former CBS Network entertainment president Nancy Tellem and charged her with starting and running a Los Angeles-based production studio.
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Xbox 360 users who have been able to do more than play games on their game consoles for some time can now stream video from Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Prime Instant Video. The
Kit Laybourne, the founder of the emerging kids sports network The Whistle, think the best way to reach children will be by distributing interactive video content on the Web and through gaming
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For Joe Moriarty, a computer consultant from Parsippany, N.J., it was as easy as point and click to buy his small share of the $3 billion in three-year notes sold by the World Bank yesterday.
The new issue, with lead underwriters from Goldman, Sachs & Company and Lehman Brothers, broke more Internet ground by taking a global bond offering to the retail investor for the first time.
At the same time, the use of the Internet for bond issues, which is the direction the corporate bond market is moving, is raising a question about the future role of sales representatives on Wall Street -- the people who have dealt with customers for years, providing information and points of view, taking orders and sometimes just holding their hands.
Victor Simone, Goldman's managing director for e-commerce, said: ''We do not envision a world without salespeople. We don't want our customers to order on the Internet and then not hear from them again.''
But Tim Bacik, a fixed-income portfolio manager at Alliance Capital who bought World Bank notes through the Internet yesterday, said, ''It appears that the role of the salesperson as it currently exists will be diminished by the Internet.'' One of the key roles that would be cut out is the provider of information on a bond sale, because all of that can now be posted on an Internet Web site.Continue reading the main story
In explaining why Alliance used the Internet rather than the traditional phone dealings with a sales representative, he said, ''We believe that the corporate bond market is moving in this direction and we want to keep on top of this development.'' He did say that because Wall Street was still learning about Internet sales, his transaction was backed up by a call from a sales representative.
About one-third of the new World Bank notes were sold over the Internet, bought by the traditional large institutional investors that always show up and the middle-level institutional investor, including insurance companies and banks, and the retail investor, which the World Bank was making an extra effort to reach to broaden its audience.
The retail sales were done through www.schwabbondsource.com, the bond Web site for Charles Schwab. A Schwab spokeswoman said that about 400 customers ordered the notes, with a third of those coming over the Internet. The total sales were about $100 million.
Mr. Moriarty, who said he was buying notes to help rebalance his equity-heavy portfolio to 50 percent stocks and 50 percent bonds, said he would not have bought the World Bank issue any other way. ''I don't have a financial relationship with any financial house dealing in bonds,'' he said. He got his information on the bond sale, including the expected yield, from the same Web site. But he was informed of the coming sale, he said, by postcard.
The World Bank notes, which are rated AAA, were priced to yield 7.122 percent, 48.5 basis points, or hundredths of one percentage point, over the comparable Treasury issue.
An article in Business Day on Jan. 21 about the sale of $3 billion in notes by the World Bank misidentified the first issuer of a debt offering to retail investors through the Internet. It is Fannie Mae, the former Federal National Mortgage Association.


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Plus, mobile email use skyrockets.
Google Partners With Digitas for Mobile Research and Insights
Search giant Google has teamed up with Digitas to share and publish mobile marketing insights and research, which it hopes will "inform investment strategies and drive the creation of mobile optimized websites."
The first installment of the data was published this week in relation to the Mother's Day holiday. Though it features little contribution from Digitas this time round, it offers up some interesting data points from Google nonetheless.
• On Mother's Day 2011, 33 percent of Google search queries on the term "flowers" came from mobile devices.
• Mobile search queries for "flowers" both on Mother's Day 2011 and in the week leading up to it grew by over 100 percent compared with the same periods last year.
• In the week prior to Mother's Day desktop searches for "flowers" increased from Monday to Friday, then declined on the weekend, while mobile queries steadily increased all week and maxed out on the weekend.
Velti Acquires Chinese Mobile Ad Network Casee
Mobile marketing platform and ad network provider Velti has acquired the remainder of Chinese mobile ad vendor Casee, following the 33 percent investment it made in the company in 2008.
Starting life as a mobile marketing platform provider, Velti has been pushing more aggressively into the pure mobile ad space, acquiring U.S.-based network Mobclix in 2010 and launching a mobile ad exchange earlier this year. The firm says the Chinese expansion should help it capitalize on the growing Chinese mobile ad market, and increase its appeal to global brands.
InMobi Reports Growth Across its Network
Mobile ad vendor InMobi has reported strong impression growth across its network between January and April, which it says reflects continued growth and advertiser demand for mobile ads. Total impressions served to devices in North America grew by 17 percent in that period, while ads served to global devices grew 11 percent.
That increase is being driven "entirely by smartphones" the company said, citing impression growth of 37 percent to devices in that category, such as Android handsets and the iPhone. Overall, smartphones now account for 80 percent of impressions across North America, it added.
Mobile Email Use Rockets 81 Percent in Six Months
Email use from mobile devices grew 81 percent between October 2010 and March 2011, data from email marketing company Return Path suggests.
The firm studied which platforms its clients' marketing messages were opened from over the six-month period, and found interactions through both desktop mail clients and webmail services dipped, while use from cellphone devices almost doubled. Meanwhile, access from tablet devices grew 15 percent over the same period.
Demand Media Hires First Mobile Strategy Head
Hoping to beef up its mobile presence, Demand Media has made its first executive hire dedicated to the channel, appointing Michael Kirby as SVP and GM, Mobile.
Kirby will be tasked with driving strategy for the company's existing and future mobile products, as well as identifying opportunities in the space.
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Footwear manufacturing business JR One Footwear, which is a joint venture between Phoenix Kothari Footwear Limited and Shoetown Footwear Company, will begin to produce Crocs branded footwear at its facility in Tamil Nadu.
“The [Tamil Nadu] factory has been built in a record time of one year,” said J Rafiq Ahmed in a company statement, India Retailing reported. “This stands as a testament to the dedication and efficiency of the Phoenix Kothari Footwear team and its commitment… The Perambalur Footwear cluster is expected to provide significant job opportunities for women. This is also expected to give a big push to the social development goals of the state.”
The facility is located approximately 250 kilometres south of Chennai in the southern state’s Perambalur district. The production unit’s foundation stone was laid by Tamil Nadu’s chief minister M K Stalin last year and production is expected to commence shortly, according to JR One Footwear Private Limited.
Phoenix Kothari Footwear Limited is promoted by both Kothari Industrial Corporation Limited and Taiwan’s Evervan Group. The business committed to investments totalling Rs 1,700 crore when it signed a memorandum of understanding with the government’s agency to promote investments in the state Guidance Tamil Nadu in August 2022.
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Shares of major chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have fallen amid concerns of new U.S. restrictions on the sale of artificial intelligence chips to China.
Nvidia says the U.S. government requires a new licence, effective immediately, to address the risk of chips being “used in, or diverted to a ‘military end use’… in China and Russia.”
There are fears the rule could lead to substantial lost revenue.
Shares of both chipmakers slipped in after-hours trading in New York. Nvidia’s shares were down by 6.6% while AMD slipped 3.7%.
The new restrictions are a “gut punch for Nvidia,” Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities told the BBC.
Chinese officials have firmly opposed the latest move. According to state media, “actions from the United States deviated from the principle of fair competition and violated international economic and trade rules.”
In a statement, Beijing said “The U.S. side should immediately stop its wrongdoing, treat companies from all over the world including Chinese companies fairly, and do more things that are conducive to the stability of the world economy.”
The U.S. Commerce Department told the BBC it was “not in a position to outline specific policy changes at this time.”
“We are taking a comprehensive approach to implement additional actions necessary related to technologies, end-uses, and end-users to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy interests,” a Commerce Department spokesperson said.
“This includes preventing China’s acquisition and use of U.S. technology in the context of its military-civil fusion program to fuel its military modernization efforts, conduct human rights abuses, and enable other malign activities.”
In a U.S. regulatory filing on Wednesday, Nvidia said the new licence requirement would hit exports of its A100 and H100 chips, which are designed to speed up machine learning tasks and the systems that include them.
Around $400 million in sales to China could be affected, Nvidia added, “if customers do not want to purchase the company’s alternative product offerings or if the (U.S. government) does not grant licences in a timely manner, or denies licences to significant customers.”
A Nvidia spokesperson told BBC it was liaising with customers in China “to satisfy their planned or future purchases with alternative products.”
An AMD spokesperson said the rules, which would prevent the shipment of its MI250 chips to China, were not expected to have “a material impact” on business.
Both Nvidia and AMD halted sales to Russia after the invasion of Ukraine in February.
Last week, Nvidia reported a revenue of $6.7 billion in the second quarter, which was significantly lower than forecasts.
However, it said revenue from its data centre business – which produces computer chips – surged by 61% from a year earlier.
“This is really a shot across the bow at China, and it’s really going to fan those flames in terms of geopolitical (tensions). Nvidia’s caught in the crossfire,” Ives said.
The U.S. and China have been locked in a long-running dispute over trade and technology. Tensions between the world’s two biggest economies rose earlier this month, after U.S. politician Nancy Pelosi made a controversial visit to Taiwan. China sees the self-ruled island as a part of its territory and insists it should be unified with the mainland.


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SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Co expects its sales in South America and the Caribbean to rise 0.9 percent in 2019 compared with last year, Celso Simomura, vice president of Toyota’s Brazil operation, said on Tuesday.
He said Toyota expected to sell 445,000 vehicles across the region in 2019, up from 441,000 in 2018. Simomura added that growth had been higher in recent years, with 5.2 percent sales growth in 2018, and 6.9 percent growth in 2017, but did not give a reason for the slowdown.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- The vast majority of stocks in the personal computer and semiconductor world bid adieu Friday to a turbulent week of trading by staging a broad-based rally in stark contrast to Thursday's pullback.
Some attributed the day's action to a technical bounce and portfolio readjustments, while others pointed to positive economic data.
For instance, the final revision to second-quarter GDP showed a growth rate of 0.3 percent from the previously reported 0.2 percent and outpaced expectations for a downward revision to 0.1 percent. See full story.The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index SOX, +2.30% was up 3.3 percent, and the Goldman Sachs Hardware Index $GHA rose 1.5 percent.
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Another robust performer, APW Ltd. (APW: news, chart, profile), soared $1.78, or 74.2 percent, to $4.18. After Thursday's market close, the company amended certain covenants of its existing multi-currency credit line, allowing it to expand its current restructuring.
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Rivers, Lakes, Oceans outfits Latin American paddlers
By Tyler Allen Explorebigsky.com Staff Writer
BOZEMAN, Mont., PUCON, Chile – Rivers, Lakes, Oceans has been supplying Central and South American boaters with quality water gear since spring of 2009. Started by Bozemanite Mike Garcia, Rios, Lagos, Mares – as it’s known in Latin America – imports most of its goods to the world-class boating destinations of Costa Rica and Pucon, Chile.
Mike, 59, spent time kayaking in Chile years ago, just as the rivers were becoming well known. “I saw this resource developing and what they were paying for products,” he said. “I said, ‘You guys are really getting dinged.’ It was the same in Costa Rica.”
He was already in the business, having founded the Bozeman outdoor store Northern Lights Trading Co. in 1979. When he sold Northern Lights in 2008, it was “the onus to do something down there.” He started in fall 2008, imported his first product to South America in spring 2009, and sent the first large shipment of boats south that summer, just in time for runoff in the Andes.
His three sons are all passionate kayakers who’ve gravitated to Chile in recent years, drawn by its wealth of previously un-paddled rivers. The oldest, Ian, 26, has spent the past nine winters in South America and has lived in Pucon for much of the last five years, where he’s an integral part of the business. Having married a Chilean woman, Ian will become a legal citizen this year.
Evan Garcia, 23, will be in South America this winter, his sixth season filming for kayak movies and searching out first descents. Between them, Ian and Evan have more than 50 first descents in South America. Mike’s youngest, Nate, is 21 and has already been south three times; he’s currently attending the University of Montana in Missoula.
Chile’s recreation economy is growing, Mike says. He visits the country twice a year, for work and play, and every year he sees more people getting out and recreating.
Today, Rivers, Lakes, Oceans imports products from more than 20 U.S. companies to Latin America. It has a warehouse in Costa Rica, and a warehouse and storefront in Pucon. It sells to hotels, outfitters, governments and private boaters – both from the shop in Pucon and over the Internet.
Because boating in Chile tends to be cold, the company sells a lot of drysuits and wetsuits. It also sells whitewater kayaks (both play boats and creek boats), ocean kayaks, fishing kayaks, rafts, paddles, oars and boating accessories.
Ian works in the Pucon storefront, along with his father during Mike’s typical three-month stay. Mike employs a few locals as well, but says they don’t know the product as well. “We want people to buy the right product for the right purpose.”
Rivers, Lakes, Oceans does most of its business from October to March. With high water in Chile generally Nov. 1 through March, the Pucon store is busiest during that time of year, as well. However, Mike says, the paddling season there is year round because of the wet climate.
Because it takes so much product down at once, Rivers, Lakes, Oceans can offer better pricing, Mike said. Plus, it has the advantage of owning all its own shipping containers, which cuts down the freight rate per unit. The boats and accessories are consolidated into the containers in Charleston, S.C., where they’re loaded onto large ships. A 17 – 24 day passage takes them through the Panama Canal, and down the West Coast.
At the dock in Chile, all the product is immediately assessed a 20 percent value-added tax by the Aduanas, or customs agents.
“A lot of things disappear down there,” Mike said. “The Aduanas may not be trustworthy. We’ve had some goods disappear in Venezuela, and we make the Peruvians carry their own goods over the border. We don’t really have that problem in Chile and Costa Rica.”
Locals buy more than 90 percent of Rivers, Lakes, Oceans’ products, with the balance being purchased by Americans and Europeans on vacation. Customers expect to see a U.S. coastguard stamp on all life jackets, Mike said.
Mike bought back Northern Lights in July 2010 along with Barrel Mountaineering – which closed September 2011 – and the Barn, which primarily sold boats and accessories until closing this fall. He did so when the interim owner gave five days’ notice before he was going to begin liquidating all three stores.
“[That] put a chink in my armor as far as being semi-retired,” Mike said.
He’s busy with both companies now, especially since he’s looking for a new location where he can merge Northern Lights and the Barn, which closed its doors Oct. 1.
For Rivers, Lakes, Oceans, which started just as the recreation market in Latin America was beginning to blossom, things are looking up. As the emerging economies in Central and South America create a larger middle class with more time and money to recreate, the market should continue to improve, Mike says.
And a country that enjoys its natural resources is more likely to conserve them, something that’s important to Mike as an outdoorsman and a business owner in the recreation industry. He cited dam and mining projects in Chile that have been halted by public opposition in the last decade.
“[Outdoor recreation] has awoken the Chileans and Argentineans in the Patagonia region as to the precious commodity they have . . . the beauty, the mountains, the water,” Mike said. “It’s paying dividends. Both countries are trying to be better stewards of that resource.”


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BT announced 13,000 job losses across three years and a reduction of its office footprint as the company bids to slash £1.5 billion from annual costs.
Redundancies are expected to be focused on back office and middle management roles and will come at a cost of £800 million. The operator pledged to employ 6,000 staff in customer service divisions and network rollout teams over the same period, as part of attempts to “refocus” the business.
Although the headcount reduction was leaked to media last week, the figure reported turned out to be short of the mark (today’s official number is 8 per cent of its total workforce).
BT’s global headquarters in central London is among a number of office sites which will be closed as part of the cost reduction strategy.
CEO Gavin Patterson (pictured) said BT was at a “pivotal moment” in its evolution, unveiling plans to revamp both its consumer and enterprise divisions.
BT Consumer – which includes mobile operator EE – will refocus on selling converged services, an area Patterson said had “latent demand” in the UK. He added the country was far behind comparative European markets in converged communications.
Further detail on changes to its consumer-facing units will be unveiled at a separate event next week. However, Patterson did state the company aimed to provide a commercial 5G service within 18 months – roughly in line with industry expectations.
Its Enterprise business, Patterson said, would benefit from lower cost of delivery through increased automation.
Despite sweeping changes, the executive remained positive on the direction of the company, stating: “I’m excited about the future of BT,” adding “we need to reshape our organisation and renew our capabilities and culture.”
The announcements came as BT revealed its earnings for its fiscal Q4 and year to end March.
Patterson said after a “challenging” period in the year ended March 2017, BT delivered a “year of disciplined delivery and risk reduction” and strong results in its fiscal Q4.
During the quarter, mobile division EE booked a 5 per cent year-on-year boost in revenue to £1.3 billion. Alongside growth in its other consumer divisions, this offset declines in BT’s Enterprise, Wholesale and Global Services divisions.
Its mobile subscriber base stood at 29.6 million by end-March, broadly flat year-on-year. The company added a process to integrate EE into its Consumer unit, which is led by EE CEO Marc Allera, was on track and had already achieved savings of £180 million during the fiscal year. Costs related to the integration were £241 million across the whole year.
In Q4, BT Group booked net profit of £722 million compared with £380 million in the comparable quarter in 2017, following a reduction in one-off costs.


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- WeChat now has 980 million monthly active users.
- There are 580,000 mini-programs online, and 170 million users using mini-programs every day.
- 95% of e-commerce platforms in China have created their own mini-programs on WeChat.
- Tiao Yi Tiao (跳一跳, one of WeChat’s mini-games that went viral) is one of the most-played games ever, with over 100 million daily active players.
- WeChat’s focus in 2018 will be helping users navigate the offline world.
- WeChat is making its search more powerful.
- WeChat will reintroduce its tipping feature and allow users to tip authors directly, after reaching a deal with Apple which had forced WeChat to take down the tipping feature.
- WeChat will integrate its regular version with Enterprise WeChat.
Google Signs Patent Deal with Tencent
Google announced a patent cross-licensing agreement with Tencent. Under the agreement, both companies will have the freedom to access each other’s patent portfolios. Neither party will able to sue the other for infringing on patents.
Google recently opened an office in Shenzhen, which is home to Tencent. Earlier this month, Google invested in the Chinese game streaming platform Chushou, a GGV portfolio company. In December, Google announced the opening of its new AI lab in Beijing.
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Financial Times, China is on track to overtake Japan and the US to become the largest user of the international patent system within two years.
Muji Opens its First Hotel in Shenzhen
Muji, the Japanese retailer, opened its first hotel in the world in Shenzhen. Decorated with wooden furniture, the rooms designs follow Muji’s minimalist aesthetic. All products are supplied by Muji. The hotel features a gym, a Muji Diner, a 24-hour library, and three meeting rooms. The prices range from $150 to $400 per night.
A second Muji hotel will open in Beijing in March, followed by a third one in Tokyo in the spring of 2019. Muji entered the China market in 2005, and has seen great success there, making China its largest international market with 200 stores.
In our opinion, Muji exemplifies a phenomenon known as “New Retail.” Read our explanation of what is New Retail.
Announcing the 996 Podcast
From Silicon Valley to Beijing, we interview the movers and shakers of China’s tech industry, as well as tech leaders with US-China cross-border perspectives. The show is co-hosted by Hans Tung and Zara Zhang of GGV Capital, and co-produced by The Sinica Podcast.
Last week, we released the first four episodes of this podcast:
Episode 1: Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo!
Episode 2: Andrew Ng, former chief scientist of Baidu
Episode 3: Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China
Episode 4: Liu Zhen, SVP of Toutiao and former head of Uber China
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced a list of measures for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector including a Rs 6,000 crore package for setting up MSME hubs and 59-minute loan sanctions up to Rs 1 crore with 2 per cent interest through a special portal. Speaking at the launch of the MSME Support and Outreach Programme, PM Modi made 12 major announcements that, he said, were to support the MSMEs, including women entrepreneurs. Also Read - PM Modi Biggest 'Dangaabaaz' of India, Worse Fate Than Trump Awaits Him, Says Mamata Banerjee
“To ease access to credit for the MSME sector, it has been decided to launch a portal that will permit completing formalities for grant or loan of up to Rs 1 crore in 59 minutes,” he said, adding that the “interest subvention on pre- and post-shipment credit for exports by MSMEs has been increased from 3 per cent to 5 per cent.” Also Read - Motera— World's Biggest Cricket Ground—Renamed as Narendra Modi Stadium
Assuring freedom from harassment by government officials such as in terms of inspections, getting clearances for businesses or minor violations, PM Modi said that inspections of the companies by inspectors will now be sanctioned only through a computerised random allotment and that an entrepreneur would no longer have to approach the court for minor violations as the government had issued an ordinance to that effect. Also Read - Bengal Has Made Up Its Mind For 'Poriborton', Says PM Modi at Hooghly Rally | Top Quotes
He further said that the inspectors will have to upload reports on the portal within 48 hours. “No inspector can now go anywhere. He will be asked why he went to a factory,” he said. (Also Read: India Was at 142nd Position in Ease of Doing Business Ranking During UPA Regime, Says PM Modi)
Terming the 12 decisions as “historic”, Narendra Modi said that apart from giving a boost to the small and medium enterprises, they (the slew of measures) will make this Diwali brighter for the sector and millions of entrepreneurs and employees. To prop up the sector that has been reeling under the impact of demonetisation and the new tax regime, Modi said he would personally monitor the implementation of this support and outreach programme in 100 districts over the next 100 days.
Also, all central public sector enterprises will have to take membership of the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) to facilitate online procurement of common use goods and services by various government departments and organisations. PM also announced that it is now mandatory that all the companies with a turnover of more than Rs 500 crore will have to join Trade Receivables e- Discounting System (TReDS) platform.
Terming the initiative as “transforming”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah expressed confidence that the measures taken by the Union government to boost the micro, small and medium enterprises sector will write a “new chapter of development and progress”.


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Samsung Galaxy J7 official Marshmallow update has reached India and Indonesia regions and that’s a great news. Now, other countries will have to wait for it. However, there’s no 100% guarantee that the latest Android update will be available in all regions.
So if you’re the one who just can’t wait that unknown period of time, then this tutorial is everything you’ve been searching for. Follow the steps written below to get the latest 6th generation OS for your Galaxy J7 smartphone.


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Amazon is already your go-to for almost anything you need or want around the house, from a new TV to spare batteries to the groceries you forgot to take for dinner you’re planning later. tonight. So it makes sense to also create your wedding list there. After all, you probably already have a running wish list, it’s easy for your guests to shop there, and your gifts will arrive faster than you can choose a honeymoon destination.
Here’s everything you need to know about creating an Amazon wedding registry and some great gift ideas.
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The device is priced at Rs 11,490 and will be available through company’s authorised retailers.
Panasonic has announced the launch of its Eluga I3 Mega smartphone for the Indian market. The device is priced at Rs 11,490 and will be available through company’s authorised retailers.
As per the specifications, the smartphone features a 5.5-inch HD IPS display with 720 x 1280 pixel resolution and boasts a 2.5D curved glass screen. It is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MTK6735 processor paired with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage which is expandable using a microSD card.
It comes equipped with a 13MP rear camera, while there is a 5MP front facing camera also on board. The smartphone will ship in Champagne Gold and Silver colours.
On the connectivity front, the Eluga I3 Mega offers 4G with VoLTE that supports the LTE bands in India - FDD 1800MHz (Band 3) and TDD 2300MHz (Band 40) - as well as FDD 850MHz (Band 5). The smartphone draws power from a huge 4000mAh battery and also has dual-SIM functionality.


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Samsung may have another battery problem on its hands
We may not put much thought into smartphone batteries, but there’s a lot going on inside them. As phones age, it becomes important to take proper care of the batteries inside them to ensure they don’t swell. This was a common occurrence when smartphones first became popular — their batteries used to expand as they aged, leading to the back glass popping out. Over time and with technological advancements, manufacturers learned how to keep this problem under control. But it looks like Samsung may have an issue on its hand with batteries on its older phones swelling at a disproportionately high rate.
In a video, YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss (aka Arun Maini) details noticing ballooned batteries on several Samsung smartphones in his storage. This includes the Galaxy S6 from 2015 and the Galaxy S10 from 2019. Initially, he blamed the UK’s heatwave for the ballooned batteries, which might have led to a drastic change in the ambient temperature. But then the YouTuber noticed that the batteries inside all older iPhones, Pixels, and Asus phones stored in the same conditions were fine despite their age.
When Arun first tweeted about the issue, Samsung quickly reached out to him and collected the devices. Two months have passed since then, but the Korean giant never got back with its findings.
What’s more worrying is that he is not the only one who has faced this issue. Matt Ansini, host of the This Is YouTube channel, reached out to Arun and confirmed that the batteries of all Samsung phones in their storage launched before the Galaxy S20 had ballooned. None of the phones from other brands, which were stored in the same place, faced a similar problem. And since the video has gone live, multiple reviewers and YouTubers confirmed the batteries of many older Samsung phones they have with them have ballooned.
Seemingly, the issue is only happening with devices lying unused for a long time. It does not affect older devices that are regularly in use. Samsung is yet to issue an official statement on the matter.
The situation is not as bad as the exploding batteries inside the Galaxy Note 7 saga for Samsung. But it does look like there’s something wrong with the batteries inside its phones that are causing them to balloon when stored for an extended time.


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Qualcomm, which is famous (or infamous, depending on the model) with its Snapdragon processors, has already limited the number of potential buyers for its first smartphone, with a $1,500 price tag for a device developed by Asus, and stating that its for Snapdragon Superfans only. But, almost a year after its release, the dream phone for superfans is still running Android 11 and has not received a security patch since the January update.
Users are asking if a device called the “Snapdragon Insider Smartphone” has been abandoned by Qualcomm. The last software update for the device was released in March (18.1055.2201.203), and although it mentions the “updated Android security patch”, instead, it is reported that the update comes with a January security patch, which is now 6 months old. Meanwhile, Google and Samsung have already begun distributing June 2022 patches to some devices.
Qualcomm has not yet upgraded the phone to Android 12, which should not be the case for a flagship device worth more than $1,000. Android 11 has been around for almost two years, and a number of companies have already started allowing users to download the beta version of Android 13 to their phones.
A Qualcomm spokesman responded to users’ concerns, at least about the frequency of security updates. “The next security update will be released on June 20, and then new updates will be released every 2-3 months,” he said. The representative did not answer users’ questions about the distribution of Android 12.
According to Android Police, Asus, the company that designed and built the device, may have something to do with the overall slowness of updates. Maybe Asus just doesn’t give priority to this device for updates. It is unknown how many such devices Qualcomm has managed to sell, but most likely less than the more affordable ZenFones from Asus.
Asus also doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to timely updates. In September last year, Asus released the Asus ZenFone 8 with Android 11, and in December began distributing updates to Android 12. The ZenFone 7 series received Android 12 only last month, and Asus Rog Phone 5 received Android 12 only in March of 2022.
By comparison, other new devices, such as the Pixel 6/6 Pro, came with Android 12 out-of-the-box, when they were released in October, 2022, and Samsung made Android 12 available for the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus and S21 Ultra in November. 2021.


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LG’s legit exit from the smartphone market has been one amongst the ideal and most likely saddest news in the mobile market, significantly pondering LG’s history and lineage. For house owners of its phones, nonetheless, the announcement moreover brings with it worries about the future of their devices as far as plot updates are involved. To allay these fears, LG is making a extraordinarily public dedication to proceed supporting some of these phones for as a lot as three years, useless to convey with some indispensable caveats to abet in thoughts.
That three-year pledge easiest applies to top price LG phones on the 2d available in the market, which covers easiest the LG G Sequence, the V series, the VELVET, and the latest Soar. However, easiest phones in these lessons launched since 2019 are genuinely lined, that plan some of these, love the LG G8 ThinQ and LG V50 ThinQ, would already be reaching their quit of make stronger.
LG moreover has one thing for mid-range phones below the Stylo and K families and these can even genuinely bear it better. 2020 models of these phones will likely be getting as a lot as two years of indispensable Android updates, that may well confidently final them as a lot as 2022 no longer much less than.
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Trace, LG seal deal to bring new sound experience
It’S going to be quality music in a new dimension for music lovers, as Afro-urban cultural entertainment channel, Trace in partnership with a leading provider in consumer electronics and home entertainment appliances, LG through its LG XBoom, has added a new feature to its scope of programming.
According to the Managing Director, Trace Anglophone West Africa, Sam Onyemelukwe, the partnership is geared towards evolving a better way of listening to music using the electronic company’s cutting edge technology.
He said: “We all know the change the younger generation is bringing into music and entertainment in general for our country and continent; it’s amazing. They are pushing boundaries and bringing recognition to Africa, and so partnering with such a reputable brand will further enhance the listening pleasure of music lovers. That’s to empower our audiences through entertainment and culture.”
Onyemelukwe stated that 30 to 20 years ago, parents were pushing their wards to study law, engineering or medicine, but “nowadays, if you hear your son wants to do music, you say that is a successful son.”
Some of my friends who are bankers and those that work in oil companies said it is just entertainment, but now they are trying to understand that entertainment is a key part of life.
“This partnership will help bring more to music lovers. Part of the partnership include a sponsorship rights for three editions of the live event, Trace Live, two-month bulk advertising deal on the channel, and also eight weeks sponsorship of the programme, Colours on the urban television channel. Other benefits include three weeks sponsorship rights for Playlist: A show on the channel and sponsorship rights for four episodes of TRACE Jamming session,” he added.
Onyemelukwe further explained that the partnership is going to last for six months, “and we are giving out over 41 speakers to Nigerians between now and December. Aside that, we are doing much more. We want to build our community and enjoy stories, music, and so on. So, to me, bringing an experience like this to our audience is part of our mission, to empower through entertainment.
Also speaking at the signoff ceremony, the General Manager, LG Electronics, Audio-Video Division, Kenny Cho said, “This partnership with Trace will bring about a new level of digital entertainment by providing Nigerian youths with cutting edge technological products of being entertained at any point in time.”
“Through the years, Trace has widened its scope and perfected the art of content production and talent management service, and with this new alliance with LG Electronics, not only has Trace become a Pan-African ecosystem which empowers the young and young at heart globally, it has set itself up for the future of global digital entertainment,” he added.
The signoff ceremony saw top influencers and executives in attendance, including Head, Marketing, LG Electronics West Africa, Hari Elluru; General Manager, Sales & Special Operations, Bassey Aniefiok and Marketing Manager, LG Nigeria, Paul Mba.